Volume 40, Number 6 · March 25, 1993
Bosnia: Questions About Rape
By Jeri Laber
Marija, a twenty-five-year-old Croatian woman living in Bosnia-Hercegovina, set out one evening to visit a friend. She had been warned not to go out after dark: there were Serbian soldiers in the nearby villages and the war was not very far away. But she took a chance. Six soldiers dressed in camouflage emerged suddenly from the darkness and seized her; they were heavily armed, with socks pulled over their faces. 'I knew at once what would happen,' Marija told me. 'It had happened to others.'
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